Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-25
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
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what Was Done mt Last Satur.
days Proceedings.
The round table, under the superin-
tendence of DR.. Weller, was fairly
well attended at 5 p. NJ. English His
tory was the theme. The aborigenes
of England were the Britons or Celts.
The Romans invaded the island B. c..
55. The Romans held the position
till A. d. 400.
The Saxons, who had come to the
succor of the Britons, held the island
till A. d. S27. So the five lines
Saxon, Danish. Danish restored, Nor
man and Planganet, continued till
1899. From 1899 to the present time,
England has been under the rule of
five houses: Lancaster, York, Tudor,
Stuart, Hanover.
The Britons, our ancestors, before
the Roman conquest B. c., were bar
barians, but under Roman rule be-
came in a degree civilized.
GRAND CONCERT SATURDAY NIGHT.
"First Settlers Story" by Miss
Belle Parsons. Read with much force
and elocutionary skill. The gist of it
was, loce at first, misunderstanding,
then the ruin wrought by angry words.
Encored back to the platform, and she
recited the 'Dartys story of his con-
version" creating much merriment.
Twilight Hour" Y. M. c. A. orches-
ira. Thirteen performers, with va
riety of instruments, string and wind.
Admirably performed. :.
Violin solo, "Andante of Rondo,"
by Mr.. L. G.. Sinnard. A creditable
performance.
The next was piano solo-Pas-
quenada-by Miss Carrie Edward.
The audience was highly pleased.
Flute duet, serenade, Messrs. Mead
and Harris. Very well received by
the audience.
Piano solo, Somnambula, Miss Fran
ces McCrery. Heartily cheered.
Vocal solo, Stacatto, Miss Ida
Breed. Encored. She came back
and sang beautifully, "Fold me gently
in thine arms"
Orchestra, Spanish dance, Y. M. G.
A. Remarkably well performed, as
evinced by the continued cheering of
the audience.
Duet, flute and violin, Messrs. Har-
ris and Sinnard.
Cup the aisle to the Wedding"
Reading by Miss Bell Parsons, an elo-
cutionist of much promise.
The performance, as whole, gave
the oreatest satisfaction
THE PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY.
At 8 O'Clock Sunday morning the
devotional conference was held, led
by Rev. Mr.. Culver, ex-Secretary of
the Y. NJ. G. A. After several pray
ers any of the audience were request
ed to repeat promises from the Bible.
After which the leader said: "Now
let us give our reasons for loving
God" The answers were generally
in scripture phrases. Immediately
following, the Sabbath school con-
vened led by the Superintendent,
DIR. Williams, of Long Beech. At 10
O'Clock Bishop Fowler, OF San Fran
cisco, was according to the published
program to preach, but for some rea-
son failed to arrive. In place of the
Bishop, Rev. Selah w. Brown, of
Santa Barbara, took the pulpit.
Rev. Mr.. Bodkin read the hymn,
"Great God we hail the sacred day
which Thou hast called Thine Own"
1t was sung by the audience, led by
the orchestra of the Y. NJ. C. A. Rev.
DIR. Cobb, of Los Angeles, read the
18th chapter of John. "Come Thou
Almighty King, help us Thy name
to sing" was sung by the audience,
led by the orchestra.
Mr.. Brown then announced his text
from the Eccl., I 10 "Say not Thou,
what is the cause that the former days
were better than these"
There is a class that say the world
is growing worse, another that it is
growing better; the former that we
are in the twilight of morning, the
latter that we are in the full blaze OF
day.
Many say the world is like Nebu-
.chadnezer's image, part OF clay. part
of iron and part OF brass.
Some men are always talking of the
"golden age" He never heard of
any golden age, except six thousand
years ago in the Garden OF Eden.
II this golden age ever existed,
when? Was it in the day far back
when Cain killed his brother? When
jeremiah cried out, go, that my head
were waters and mine eyes a fountain
of tears" etc? Was it when the Sa-
yior said, go, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that killest the prophets" etc -?
He asked about the time of the seven
churches of Asia, of the time of Con-
stantine when Rome became Chris
tian, the dark ages of thousand
wears, of Martin Luther, of the days of
Wesley when the word "not" was
left out of the Ten Commandments.
Wesley's day was the worst for a thou
sand years. He was brick-batted,
rotten egged, and when the mob were
about to tear him in pieces, q prize
fighter came to his rescue.
He reviewed the history of different
countries under papal rule, showing
how a large part of the world was
without religious freedom of the con-
science or press.
"I'll make few statements: First,
There are not as many infidels as a
hundred years ago. Then Thomas
Paine was in his glory. There were ten
Robert Ingersoll's, where there is but
one now.
He spoke of slavery in its terrible
features, of dueling which was popu-
lar a hundred years ago. Lotteries are
under ban by the government OF the
United States; then, colleges were en-
dowed by lotteries and sometimes
churches.
In Boston two hundred years ago,
Quakers and Baptists were whipped
and hung because of their religion.
Less than one hundred years ago, at
the ordination of minister in Hart
ford, Conn, a bill for an ordination
dinner was read, large proportion OF